David Walsh Blog

• By David WalshJanuary 19, 2022

  Amazing Text Editing Experiences with UltraEdit

  There's a common saying that adults spend more time with coworkers than family; for us software engineers, we spend more time with our text editor than our families. And why shouldn't we? They're our main tool to do a variety of things, and as these...

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• By Landon SchroppJanuary 17, 2022

  More Awesome Git Aliases

  In the last article in this series, Awesome Git Aliases, we took a look at some awesome aliases for Git. However, the true power of Git aliases comes from writing custom scripts. These allow you to build Git commands that can do anything you can...

• By David WalshJanuary 13, 2022

  Immediately Executing setInterval with JavaScript

  Employing setInterval for condition polling has really been useful over the years. Whether polling on the client or server sides, being reactive to specific conditions helps to improve user experience. One task I recently needed to complete required that my setInterval immediately execute and...

• By David WalshJanuary 6, 2022

  How to Flatten git Commits

  One of my least favorite tasks as a software engineer is resolving merge conflicts. A simple rebase is a frequent occurrence but the rare massive conflict is inevitable when many engineers work in a single codebase. One thing that helps me deal with large...

• By David WalshDecember 27, 2021

  JavaScript String replaceAll

  Replacing a substring of text within a larger string has always been misleading in JavaScript. I wrote Replace All Occurrences of a String in JavaScript years ago and it's still one of my most read articles. The confusion lies in that replace only...

• By David WalshDecember 16, 2021

  Froala: The Next Generation WYSIWYG Editor

  There are a number of utilities required to really power a content management system and its users. One of the most important utilities is a performant, feature-rich WYSIWYG editor. We've always had to choose between the two exiting editors, CKEditor and TinyMCE, but now we...

• By David WalshDecember 14, 2021

  Log a User Out from Command Line

  Automation is a system administrator, support agent, and tech savvy person's dream. Automating tasks via scripts remotely helps to get clients out of trouble or even the organization itself. Oftentimes big updates can require users log out. Logging a user out from command...

• By David WalshDecember 13, 2021

  navigator.clipboard API

  Reading from and writing to the user's clipboard can be both a very useful and dangerous capability. Used correctly and it's a huge convenience to the user; used dubiously and the user could suffer catastrophic consequences. Imagine a wrong account number or wallet address...

• By Tomek PoniatowiczNovember 22, 2021

  GraphQL Editor – The Journey from Initial Release to Version 5.0

  From the very beginning of our adventure with GraphQL, we were impressed by how great its community is. The amount of content, libraries and great tools generated by GraphQL users amazed us from the very start. The more time we spent working with GraphQL the more...

• By David WalshNovember 7, 2021

  Array.prototype.at

  Working with arrays is an essential skill in any programming language, especially JavaScript, as we continue to rely on external data APIs. JavaScript has added methods like find and `findIndex recently, but one syntax I love from languages like Python is retrieving values by negative indexes.When...